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fumigation

[fyoo-mi-gey-shuhn] / ˌfyu mɪˈgeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
airing out
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Colombia will also restart fumigation to destroy coca crops, a practice halted since 2015 and strongly opposed by Petro as a senator.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

He said improved coordination between local and national governments and farmers was needed, to ensure adequate fumigation of rice fields.

From BBC • Sep. 2, 2024

A manager for one of them, Bay View Farms LLC, said the fumigation process is “really heavily regulated and inspected by not just the county, but also the state.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2024

In 2019, in the journal Nature Chemical Biology, Dudareva and her associates published their discovery of a new physiological process, "Natural fumigation as a mechanism for volatile transport between flower organs."

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2024

Papá was sure the fumigation had taken care of the problem.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez